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Alex Shephard

Alex Shephard is senior editor of The New Republic, where he has covered politics and culture since 2015. His work has also appeared in New York, GQ, The Atlantic, The Nation, and other publications.  

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February 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, the Oscar-winning director of A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, has had quite a week.
February 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
Two years ago, Donald Trump live-tweeted the Oscars.
February 28, 2016
Alex Shephard, Elaine Teng
Which Films Will Win at Tonight’s Academy Awards?
February 25, 2016
Alex Shephard
George RR Martin is now competing with Game of Thrones.
February 25, 2016
Alex Shephard
The rich friends Scalia was hanging out with when he died were part of a “secretive society of elite hunters.”
February 23, 2016
Alex Shephard
President Obama is finally unveiling a plan to close Guantanamo.
February 23, 2016
Alex Shephard
Casey Affleck did not want Stephen Colbert to pick on him last night.
February 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
After blowing a massive lead, Hillary Clinton prevails in Nevada.
February 18, 2016
Alex Shephard
Jeb Bush’s continues his macho rebrand by chest bumping his brother.
February 16, 2016
Alex Shephard
Why is Johnny Depp playing guitar with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry?
February 11, 2016
Alex Shephard
Cliven Bundy finally got himself arrested for his 2014 standoff with the government.
February 10, 2016
Alex Shephard
It was a three-man Republican race after Iowa. How many men is the race now?
February 9, 2016
Alex Shephard
Amazon’s terms and conditions have a “zombie clause.”
February 9, 2016
Alex Shephard
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is exactly what late night needs.
February 8, 2016
Alex Shephard
Peyton Manning can’t stop shilling.
February 4, 2016
Alex Shephard, Clio Chang
Everybody Hates Ted
Ted Cruz is so easy to hate that loathing him has become a form of political poetry.
February 2, 2016
Alex Shephard
The Iowa caucuses have barely begun and CNN’s coverage is already totally out of control.
January 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump is not going to shut up about the ratings of the debate he skipped, which aren’t great.
January 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
We just got another classic Ben Carson foreign policy answer.
January 29, 2016
Alex Shephard
Even with Trump off the stage, Jeb still seems scared of him.

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